Icebreaker Admiral Makarov
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| Name: | Admiral Makarov |
| Namesake: | Admiral Stepan Makarov |
| Owner: | Far East Shipping Company |
| Builder: | Helsinki New Shipyard, Helsinki, Finland |
| Launched: | 1975 |
| Commissioned: | 1975 |
| Homeport: | Vladivostok |
| Fate: | in service |
| Notes: | [1] |
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| Class and type: | Icebreaker |
| Tonnage: | GRT:14058 Net: 4217 |
| Length: | 134.84 m (442 feet) |
| Beam: | 25.97 m |
| Height: | above base line: 45.60 m |
| Draft: | 11.00 m |
| Depth: | 16.75 m |
| Ice class: | A1-class |
| Installed power: | Main engines: 6 diesel sets producing 36,000 shp |
| Propulsion: | 3 twin DC electric motors each turning a propeller shaft to which is attached a 4 bladed 4.3m diameter propeller with hardened steel blades. Blades can be changed at sea in the event of damage. |
| Speed: | 19.8 knots |
| Aviation facilities: | Helideck and Hangar |
The Icebreaker Admiral Makarov (Адмирал Макаров) is a large Russian icebreaker operated by the Far East Shipping Company (FESCO).[1] Completed in 1975, she is FESCO's oldest icebreaker. Admiral Makarov and her sister ship Krasin (1976), are the largest of the five icebreakers in FESCO's fleet. She is named after the Imperial Russian Navy Admiral Stepan Makarov.
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Layout
Triple-screw, four-decker, with forecastle, poop, elogated superstructure, fore deckhouse, middle engine room, d/e icebreaker with icebreaker bow and cruiser stern.[1]
Service
- 2003-2006: in the Baltic Sea - escorting vessels to and from Primorsk;[2]
- 2006 (10-year contract): in the Tatar Strait - with icebreaker Krasin, escorting large-capacity crude oil tankers to DeKastri, in project Sakhalin-I.[3]
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "FESCO vessels: Admiral Makarov". Fesco Transport Group. http://www.fesco.ru/en/assets/fleet-fesco/vessels/icebreakers/admiral-makarov/. Retrieved 2008-07-27.
- ↑ "Maritime Market, Issue 18". 2006. http://www.maritimemarket.ru/eng/makarov.html. Retrieved 2008-07-27.
- ↑ "Ice Breakers left Vladivostok for Sakhalin Coast". Vladivostok Times. 24 December 2006. http://vladivostoktimes.com/show.php?id=5592. Retrieved 2008-07-20.
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